Mozaik draws the cabinets. Something still has to price the job.
Mozaik is design-and-manufacture software for custom cabinet shops — you build the job in it and it produces the parts and the machining. PlankCAD is the costing side: what it should sell for, and the quote you send.
Mozaik is built for shops that make their own cabinets and want one system to carry a job from design through to the machine. You lay out the room, the software resolves it into parts, and the output feeds your saw or router.
Costing is available in that world, but it sits downstream of the design: the job has to exist as a drawing before the numbers mean anything. That is the correct order when the job is already won.
It is the wrong order for an enquiry. Most quotes are written before there is any design work at all, and the shop cannot justify modelling every job that may never land.
Mozaik: design-led, ending at the machine
Installed desktop software organised around cabinet construction. You design the job from parametric parts that match how your shop builds, and it resolves that design into parts, sheet layouts and machining output. Its strength is that the drawing and the manufacturing data are the same object.
PlankCAD: cost-led, ending at the quote
A browser workspace that starts at the money. Enter what the job costs you — sheet goods, hardware, edging, finish, labour hours against your rates — then apply waste, overhead and a true gross-margin target, and export a customer-ready PDF quote with scope, line items, tax and terms. If it converts, the same parts feed a cut list and sheet optimizer that nests on your real sheet sizes with kerf and grain respected, offcuts carry to the next job, and you record what it actually cost against what you estimated.
Where the two differ.
| Dimension | Mozaik | PlankCAD |
|---|---|---|
| Starts from | A design of the cabinets | The costs of the job |
| To quote an enquiry | Design it first | Enter cost lines; no drawing needed |
| Machining output | Yes — its core purpose | None. It does not drive machines |
| Runs in | Installed desktop software | Any browser, including on site |
| Margin | Derived with the job costing | True gross margin — profit over selling price, not markup over cost |
| Customer-facing output | Drawings and reports | A PDF quote with scope, line items, tax, total and terms |
| After the job | Focus is production | Record actual cost against the estimate and see the gap |
When Mozaik is the right tool
- You are cutting parts on a CNC and want the design to produce the machining data directly.
- You want the software to hold your construction method so every job is built the same way.
- You need shop drawings and elevations for the customer or the installer.
- Your bottleneck is production, not pricing.
Using both
They meet at the point a quote is accepted. Price the enquiry here and send the PDF; once it is won, design and manufacture it in Mozaik as you do now. Neither one has to be removed for the other to be useful.
PlankCAD and Mozaik.
No, and it would be dishonest to sell it as one. Mozaik designs cabinets and produces machining output; PlankCAD does neither. What it replaces is the spreadsheet you price the job in before any design work happens. Shops commonly run both.
Yes — that is the point of the difference. A price is built from cost lines: sheet goods, hardware, edging, finish, labour hours against your rate, plus waste, overhead and margin. None of that requires a drawing, which matters because most enquiries never become jobs.
It nests the parts you priced onto your real sheet sizes with kerf and grain direction respected, and offcuts carry to the next job as stock. It does not generate toolpaths or CNC data.
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